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Hi Everyone! My name is Oliver Farrell and i am a game design masters student studying at Uclan. My main focus is environment art and I am aiming to create Blizzard styled props and environments.

I created this thread to basicly get some feedback and show my progress, i hope you guys like it!

So firstly to familiarise myself with the Blizzard style I followed a tutorial on 3Dmotive created by Tyson Murphy. The tutorial is great and goes into detail on his techniques and processes on creating a lowpoly hand painted sword and sheild.

I have followed this tutorial the best i could and bellow is my progress:

Cant see any images

Originally Posted by Callesw

Cant see any images

Im sorry I am a complete Noob at this, do you know how to post Images from PC?

Imgur.com

Upload them, click the picture and copy the URL to the mesasge box and press the image button with it highlighted.

Imgur degrades image quality
Sometimes massively

/Just sayin

1) Upload to www.photobucket.com
2) Copy the link they provide with the [img][/img] tags.
3) Past it here.

Doesn't PhotoBucket have quotas? I hate looking at old threads where all the images are 404'ed

+1 for imgur. Its simple and does its job :]

Display of UVs on models

Imgur degrades image quality
Sometimes massively

/Just sayin

Does anyone else agree with this? I might believe you MadnessImport, but sometimes you 'just sayin' some crazy things xD

Don't want to thread jack but personally I like Dropbox.

I can see the sword and shield. Looking good so far...

I would recommend for wireframe shots to just screen grab them as gray object with white lines. Or some combo that's easier to see.

I see a sword and shield D:

Im doing everything I can to upload these, Im pulling my hair out!!! doing everything right its just not working, i will get the pics up ASAP!

Hey, maybe a pic will help. Go to photobucket, upload something, click on it once it's uploaded and copy paste the highlighted code here:

imageshack how to :P

How to use ImageShack for posting pictures on...

I see the uvwed sword and shield, looks good so far.

I wont give up!!!!

Originally Posted by Jessica Dinh

Does anyone else agree with this? I might believe you MadnessImport, but sometimes you 'just sayin' some crazy things xD

I guess i must watch what i say from now on thus i become another buy who cried wolf then huh

Originally Posted by Oliver_Farrell

I wont give up!!!!

Never copy the link directly from the address bar.
Unless it ends with an image file extension
Thats usually how i find someone adding images incorrectly

Originally Posted by PhattyEwok

Don't want to thread jack but personally I like Dropbox.

I can see the sword and shield. Looking good so far...

I would recommend for wireframe shots to just screen grab them as gray object with white lines. Or some combo that's easier to see.

Agreed. All that shot really shows is the wireframe anyway.

Do what fatty says to show of wireframe of model. To show of uv mapping better to just put a checker board on there, that's shows you the amount of stretching you'll have so a much better indicator of how well done the unwrap is.

The sword and shield looks cool so far Oliver!
Seeing forward to textures Keep it coming!

Here is the progress of my work!



The initial shading on the sword.



Working in the form.



Applying rust and completing tonal value on blade.



Adding in Scratches.



More kinks and fine details.



More shine added to the blade, sharpening of details.



Top part of Blade painted.



Gold studs painted onto sword.



Top section of sword handle painted.



Close up of top section handle, adding details.



Finished sword.



Initial work on shield.



Working in the wood texture.



Nearly done, Shield needs lighting information to be fixed.



Finished! Happy with the exercise I can't wait to make my own props now!



A quick comparison of the textures at 1024 and 256.

Texture map.



Finished render 1.



Finished render 2.

This exercise helped make me more confident in my hand painted texturing ability, I would suggest anyone who wants to improve to take a look at the tutorial.

I am now going to design and model a weapon and shield of my own, after this I will move onto more environment based props, I will keep posting daily!

It came out beautiful And still looks magnificent at a lower resolution!

Wow, love the process you did and it came out really well!

Have you have experience doing hand painted stuff before?

Definitely good execution. Almost would have liked to see some personal touches rather than a straight replication, but good stuff none the less.

Originally Posted by Mcejn

Definitely good execution. Almost would have liked to see some personal touches rather than a straight replication, but good stuff none the less.

Thanks, ye i know i was itching to do that, Im working on my own Weapon and Shield now so hopefully you will get to see my personal touches! Stay tuned!